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TIL of a coffee with the highest tested caffeine content of 651mg/serving, appropriately called Death-Wish

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bDZ7 TIL in Denmark it’s illegal to burn the flags of foreign countries but legal to burn the Danish flag
4ll5 TIL that in 1910, Congress nearly passed “the American Hippo Bill”, which would have released hippos in Louisiana bayous in order to eat invasive plants while solving America’s meat shortage. Newspapers of the time praised hippo meat as “lake cow bacon”.
oBXKY TIL that though it has “Australian” in the name, and they commonly go by “Aussies” for short, the dog breed Australian Shepards are completely American.
x6lYD TIL the is a "white only" town in South Africa called Orania. Intended to be an ethnostate for Afrikaners and seeks independence from the rest of the country.
bY0j TIL that Antonio Banderas provided the voice for the main character in the English, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish and Catalan versions of the movie Puss in Boots.